The Beau Brummels (1928)

Nat Moyer (Walter Matthau) y Midge Carter (Ossie Davis) son dos ancianos de ochenta años que comparten sus días sentados en un banco de Central Park, en Nueva York, sorteando juntos los avatares diarios que les amenazan: drogadictos, jóvenes imprudentes, vagabundos, el retiro forzado y el temor de ser enviados a una residencia para la Tercera Edad. Herb Gardner adapta su propia obra de teatro ganadora del premio Tony.

Una pareja de bailarines trata de hacerse un hueco en Broadway poco antes de estallar la Primera Guerra Mundial.

El profesor Wong ha inventado un televisor e invita a todo el mundo a verlo durante una feria china. Cada vez que Tommy Nash intenta casarse con su novia cae enfermo, y cuando irrumpe en el hotel se decreta la cuarentena. A este hotel llega el profesor Quail en su autogiro...

The pursuit of Hop Lee by an irate policeman.

Vaudeville team Shaw & Lee sing songs and tell jokes in hilarious deadpan.

A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble. They decide to put their young son in the act in hopes of attracting some new attention. The boy turns out to be a major talent, audiences love him and the act is on its way to the top. That's when an organization whose purpose is to stop children from performing on stage shows up, and they're dead set on breaking up the act.

A woman shows off her trained dogs.

The champion lady boxers of the world. Shows two female pugilists who are really clever. They engage in a hot one-round sparring bout. A park, with marble entrance and walk, and beautiful trees and shrubbery, make a very pleasing background. The exhibition is very lively from start to finish; the blows fall thick and fast, and some very clever pugilistic generalship is shown. Sold complete or in separate lengths.

In this Vitaphone Broadway Brevity musical short, Hal and Dawn work at the same vaudeville theater, where he's an usher, she's a chorus girl. When they both get fired, they form an act and vow to get back to their old theater, as performers.

Un obrero de la construcción se hace cargo de la hija de un compañero, muerto en accidente laboral. Va con la chica a Nueva York para localizar a su tío. Cuando le encuentra, descubre que el hombre ha invertido los ahorros de toda su vida en un restaurante que es una ruina. Toma la decisión de ayudar a la chica y a su tío en convertir el local en un éxito.

Comedian Pat West performs his vaudeville act.

Post-revolucionary Mexico. War secretary Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate for presidency, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows that his boss and current president, El Caudillo, has chosen a second one.

Olive rushes over to show Popeye the headline: Vaudeville is coming back. They agree to rehearse their old act. After a brief song-and-dance intro, the act begins: Popeye demonstrating his strength while Olive displays her flexibility and balance; impersonations of Jimmy Durante, Stan Laurel and Groucho Marx; and the last act, more feats of strength and agility.

Vaudeville act performed by husband and wife team Russ Brown and Jean Whitaker.

An "Out of the Inkwell" cartoon featuring Ko-Ko the Clown.

Harry Fox performs his vaudeville act.

Two men box in a comedic manner, with the film opening as one man in a cap punches the other and then ducks behind him.

Ben Bernie and his orchestra play a few songs for a vitaphone recording.

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume, which was considered lost until footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme was identified as being from this film.

Camera iris opens to six ponies with decorated harnesses and plumed halters, standing in the center of a stage with a painted backdrop of mountains. Cuts to two ponies on a seesaw, with a moustached man in a white uniform with dark piping and a white cap holding their leads. A second trainer in a dark suit can also be seen occasionally with the ponies. Individual ponies perform a variety of tricks, including rolling a slatted barrel across the stage with front legs and then with a nose, knocking over the barrel, "limping" across the stage with one front leg held off the ground, and pushing the trainer over with a nose-butt.